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Ukraine: Belarusian APT groupĀ UNC1151 targets military personnel with spear phishing

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In August 2020, security experts from FireEye uncovered a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting NATO by spreading fake news content on compromised news websites. According to FireEye, the campaign tracked as GhostWriter, has been ongoing since at least March 2017 and is aligned with Russian security interests.

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German Parliament Bundestag targeted again by Russia-linked hackers

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The attackers are suspected to be hackers of the tracked as Ghostwriter group that works under the control of the Russian military secret service GRU. In August, researchers from FireEye reported that GhostWriter group was behind a disinformation campaign that started at least in March 2017 and is aligned with Russian security interests.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 309

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Ghost Squad Hackers defaced a second European Space Agency (ESA) site in a week

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A Server-side request forgery (also known as SSRF) is a web security vulnerability that allows an attacker to induce the server-side application to make HTTP requests to an arbitrary domain of the attackerā€™s choosing. This time they have exploited the issue to gain access to the [link] domain and deface it. ” the hackers told me.

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Mandiant links Ghostwriter operations to Belarus

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Security researchers at the Mandiant Threat Intelligence team believe that Ghostwriter APT group is linked to the government of Belarus. In August 2020, security experts from FireEye uncovered a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting NATO by spreading fake news content on compromised news websites. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Ghostwriter disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting NATO

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Security experts from FireEye have uncovered a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting NATO by spreading fake news content on compromised news websites. According to FireEye, the campaign tracked as GhostWriter, has been ongoing since at least March 2017 and is aligned with Russian security interests. ā€œWe Pierluigi Paganini.

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GhostWriter APT targets state entities of Ukraine with Cobalt Strike BeaconĀ 

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In August 2020, security experts from FireEye uncovered a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting NATO by spreading fake news content on compromised news websites. According to FireEye, the campaign tracked as GhostWriter, has been ongoing since at least March 2017 and is aligned with Russian security interests.